Page Formatting

[pfdubz]

I have tried a number of suggestions to stretch a schedule's timescale over
the full page width of an 11 x 17. As others have found, the font can get
incredibly small if the duration of the schedule is excessive. I have been
able to overcome this to an extent by changing the font size using
Format:Text Style. However, I always seem to get to a point where Project
decides to adjust the duration rather than the font size.
For instance, my duration is 440 days and my print out is looking pretty
good, covering the whole page. I decide to enlarge the font for the column
headers and when I next do a print preview, the displayed duration has
increasaed to 880 days. Neither my timescale scaling factor in page setup or
my print range have changed, but my preview shows a lot of white space on the
right half of the page and my scheduel scrunched into infinitessimally small
fonts on the left side
Is there anyway to lock the time scale so it covers the full page width?

 

[Jack Dahlgren]

I've always needed some trial and error... have you tried modifying the
"Size" in the timescale dialog box?

-Jack Dahlgren

 

[pfdubz]

That doesn't help either. Seems that trial and Error are the quid pro quo.
Seesm kind of silly, doesn't it?

 

[Dytham]

I have found that the accuracy and convenience of print preview in Project
2007 is worse than it was in 2003. In particular, the Fit to 1 page wide by n
Pages tall used to accurately scale to fill a whole number of pages, but 2007
often leaves half a page empty, or spills a couple of rows over to an extra
page.